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The Extended Play Download Days is expected to wrap up today. So, hopefully you’ve been able to snag all your DLC…
I was wandering about (in the physical world) and had picked up a couple of Xbox 360 titles that had been discounted, and I wasn’t quite paying attention to the list of DLC [...]
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Given all of the speculation surrounding whether AOL [TWX] and Yahoo [YHOO] are being sincere in their talks, and the current mega-swirl in CBS’ [CBS] declining value, here’s an interesting notion:
Hey, Jeff Bewkes, why not sell AOL to Yahoo, and then buy up CBS?
This would give Time Warner that pure broadcast play that [...]
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This is one of those news bits that just makes me wonder: why do people bother? Not in a negative or positive way… just a quick second of pause.
An eleven-year-old girl drags her family out of an upturned car because she knew that flipped-over cars tend to explode in Grand Theft Auto. And which version [...]
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… at least, game-wise (in the CNBC $1M Challenge game).
It looks like, about the same time as my post about the ‘game, Flip is getting back into the action with this third iteration of the game. This will probably be an interesting 10 weeks of twisty-turny nausea (and maybe even a bit of vomiting), so [...]
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In light of Apple’s [AAPL] fantastic reported performance in the last quarter, a lot of financial analysts have grumbled about the huge warchest that Steve & Co. are sitting on and why it hasn’t been been used to buttress the stock value against the hordes of crazed speculators and economic downturn volatility.
Here’s an example: Jim [...]
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This is one of those perennial murmurs through the IT community, it seems: who/what is going to buy AOL, and what is the damage going to be?
As an ex-AOL’er, this is always a fun thread to follow, across the blogosphere and even as bleed-through to traditional media.
Today, CNBC is repeating a Reuters article that mentions [...]
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Today’s date, back in 1929, marked the big escalation of the Wall Street collapse that occurred at the beginning of the Great Depression (and depending on whom you ask, it may have been the cause of the Great Depression).
Of course, the problem was not actually a single-day event. It actually kept going onto the next [...]
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It’s been a few months already since the close of the infamous CNBC $1,000,000 Challenge game. Remember the last item on Javamancy about the game?
Well…
It’s baaaack!
You can sign up now to get ready for the action, which starts November 17, 2008. At this time, the currency trading part of the game is playable in demo [...]
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Javamancy has completed the upgrade to WordPress 2.6.3.
Thanks for being patient with us. A lot of you fellow bloggers have been upgrading your WordPress blogs as well, so hopefully it’s been relatively uneventful for you. For us, we’ve been experimenting with a new technique for managing the Javamancy comment system during software upgrades, so it [...]
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It’s been in the press for several weeks now… the game-changing BlackBerry device that will premiere on a cellular carrier that has been long shut out of this latest smartphone wave (at least in the U.S.)…
Yep, that’s right: Verizon [VZ] will be getting the initial rights to the BlackBerry Storm, RIM’s [RIMM] shot across Apple’s [...]
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